Jade Scott
@huntingrebels.bsky.social
Mary, Queen of Scots | Annas Keith | Lady Anne Percy | PI AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 @ UofGlasgow History |
https://www.waterstones.com/book/captive-queen/dr-jade-scott/9781789296464
Also: dogs, horses, books
https://www.waterstones.com/book/captive-queen/dr-jade-scott/9781789296464
Also: dogs, horses, books
It's been a busy few weeks! Formally started the AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 project with the fantastic History team @uofglasgow.bsky.social on 1 October 🎉
Oh and did I mention I brought home a new quadruped child? 🦄
Everyone meet Elvis, my very own, very handsome Highland Pony 🐴😍
Oh and did I mention I brought home a new quadruped child? 🦄
Everyone meet Elvis, my very own, very handsome Highland Pony 🐴😍
October 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It's been a busy few weeks! Formally started the AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 project with the fantastic History team @uofglasgow.bsky.social on 1 October 🎉
Oh and did I mention I brought home a new quadruped child? 🦄
Everyone meet Elvis, my very own, very handsome Highland Pony 🐴😍
Oh and did I mention I brought home a new quadruped child? 🦄
Everyone meet Elvis, my very own, very handsome Highland Pony 🐴😍
Can't believe it but on Wednesday I'll be at #EdBookFest talking Mary, Queen of Scots w/ the amazing Rosemary Goring, Kate Anderson and Anna Groundwater! 👑📚
Thursday = Highlands & Clydesdales at Scone Horse Trials 🐎
Come along, the more friendly faces the better!
@omarabooks.bsky.social
Thursday = Highlands & Clydesdales at Scone Horse Trials 🐎
Come along, the more friendly faces the better!
@omarabooks.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Can't believe it but on Wednesday I'll be at #EdBookFest talking Mary, Queen of Scots w/ the amazing Rosemary Goring, Kate Anderson and Anna Groundwater! 👑📚
Thursday = Highlands & Clydesdales at Scone Horse Trials 🐎
Come along, the more friendly faces the better!
@omarabooks.bsky.social
Thursday = Highlands & Clydesdales at Scone Horse Trials 🐎
Come along, the more friendly faces the better!
@omarabooks.bsky.social
Cannot for the life of me figure out what fabric this is supposed to be even as I play around with various interpretations of transcribing it! 😖
'fyn double...' Any suggestions?
'fyn double...' Any suggestions?
February 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Cannot for the life of me figure out what fabric this is supposed to be even as I play around with various interpretations of transcribing it! 😖
'fyn double...' Any suggestions?
'fyn double...' Any suggestions?
Today is US publication day for Captive Queen! 🎉
With another lovely cover too 👑
Thanks to the team at Pegasus
With another lovely cover too 👑
Thanks to the team at Pegasus
February 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Today is US publication day for Captive Queen! 🎉
With another lovely cover too 👑
Thanks to the team at Pegasus
With another lovely cover too 👑
Thanks to the team at Pegasus
'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year'
Final poem for this year's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Sir Walter Scott, from 'Old Christmastide']
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year'
Final poem for this year's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Sir Walter Scott, from 'Old Christmastide']
December 24, 2024 at 10:35 AM
'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year'
Final poem for this year's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Sir Walter Scott, from 'Old Christmastide']
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year'
Final poem for this year's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Sir Walter Scott, from 'Old Christmastide']
'Bide the storm ye canna hinder,
Mindin' through the strife,
Hoo the luntin' lowe o' beauty
Lichts the grey o' life.'
[Helen Cruickshank, 'Sea Buckthorn']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
Mindin' through the strife,
Hoo the luntin' lowe o' beauty
Lichts the grey o' life.'
[Helen Cruickshank, 'Sea Buckthorn']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
December 23, 2024 at 11:57 AM
'Bide the storm ye canna hinder,
Mindin' through the strife,
Hoo the luntin' lowe o' beauty
Lichts the grey o' life.'
[Helen Cruickshank, 'Sea Buckthorn']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
Mindin' through the strife,
Hoo the luntin' lowe o' beauty
Lichts the grey o' life.'
[Helen Cruickshank, 'Sea Buckthorn']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
'if it weren't for this persistent sense
of something -'
[Kate Clanchy, 'Teams']
For today's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
of something -'
[Kate Clanchy, 'Teams']
For today's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
December 22, 2024 at 10:10 AM
'if it weren't for this persistent sense
of something -'
[Kate Clanchy, 'Teams']
For today's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
of something -'
[Kate Clanchy, 'Teams']
For today's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
'A mountain shut within itself, yet a world'
Delayed #ScottishPoetryAdvent for 21 December
[Nan Shepherd, 'Summit of Corrie Etchachan']
Delayed #ScottishPoetryAdvent for 21 December
[Nan Shepherd, 'Summit of Corrie Etchachan']
December 22, 2024 at 10:09 AM
'A mountain shut within itself, yet a world'
Delayed #ScottishPoetryAdvent for 21 December
[Nan Shepherd, 'Summit of Corrie Etchachan']
Delayed #ScottishPoetryAdvent for 21 December
[Nan Shepherd, 'Summit of Corrie Etchachan']
December 20, 2024 at 6:39 PM
‘s an t-eòlas ac’gun cuireadh cainnt
bacadh air a’ chomanachadh òrbhuidh ud'
'in the certain knowledge that talk would hamper that expansive communion'
[Meg Bateman, 'Toileachas/Happiness']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
bacadh air a’ chomanachadh òrbhuidh ud'
'in the certain knowledge that talk would hamper that expansive communion'
[Meg Bateman, 'Toileachas/Happiness']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
December 19, 2024 at 5:00 PM
‘s an t-eòlas ac’gun cuireadh cainnt
bacadh air a’ chomanachadh òrbhuidh ud'
'in the certain knowledge that talk would hamper that expansive communion'
[Meg Bateman, 'Toileachas/Happiness']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
bacadh air a’ chomanachadh òrbhuidh ud'
'in the certain knowledge that talk would hamper that expansive communion'
[Meg Bateman, 'Toileachas/Happiness']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
'My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here'
Obligatory Burns poem for #ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Robert Burns, 'My Heart's in the Highlands']
Obligatory Burns poem for #ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Robert Burns, 'My Heart's in the Highlands']
December 18, 2024 at 6:03 PM
'My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here'
Obligatory Burns poem for #ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Robert Burns, 'My Heart's in the Highlands']
Obligatory Burns poem for #ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Robert Burns, 'My Heart's in the Highlands']
'my father looking through my eyes
or that
part of me that feels him there'
[Gerry Cambridge, 'In Gordon Street']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
or that
part of me that feels him there'
[Gerry Cambridge, 'In Gordon Street']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
December 17, 2024 at 4:15 PM
'my father looking through my eyes
or that
part of me that feels him there'
[Gerry Cambridge, 'In Gordon Street']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
or that
part of me that feels him there'
[Gerry Cambridge, 'In Gordon Street']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
'Listen. Put on morning.
Waken into falling light.'
[W. S. Graham, 'Listen. Put on morning']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
Waken into falling light.'
[W. S. Graham, 'Listen. Put on morning']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
December 16, 2024 at 4:57 PM
'Listen. Put on morning.
Waken into falling light.'
[W. S. Graham, 'Listen. Put on morning']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
Waken into falling light.'
[W. S. Graham, 'Listen. Put on morning']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
'Even the simplest poem
May destroy your immunity to human emotions'
[Elma Mitchell, 'This Poem...']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
May destroy your immunity to human emotions'
[Elma Mitchell, 'This Poem...']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
December 15, 2024 at 10:13 AM
'Even the simplest poem
May destroy your immunity to human emotions'
[Elma Mitchell, 'This Poem...']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
May destroy your immunity to human emotions'
[Elma Mitchell, 'This Poem...']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
'Amazed was the laird when the lady said 'Na';
And wi' a laigh curtsie she turned awa'.
[Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, 'The Laird o' Cockpen']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
And wi' a laigh curtsie she turned awa'.
[Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, 'The Laird o' Cockpen']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
December 14, 2024 at 1:20 PM
'Amazed was the laird when the lady said 'Na';
And wi' a laigh curtsie she turned awa'.
[Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, 'The Laird o' Cockpen']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
And wi' a laigh curtsie she turned awa'.
[Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, 'The Laird o' Cockpen']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
'the light comes back
the light always comes back' ❤️
[Liz Lochhead, 'In the Mid-Winter']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
the light always comes back' ❤️
[Liz Lochhead, 'In the Mid-Winter']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
December 13, 2024 at 3:34 PM
'the light comes back
the light always comes back' ❤️
[Liz Lochhead, 'In the Mid-Winter']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
the light always comes back' ❤️
[Liz Lochhead, 'In the Mid-Winter']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
'But silly we, like foolish children, rest
Well pleased with coloured vellum, leaves of gold,
Fair dangling ribands, leaving what is best'
[William Drummond of Hawthornden, 'The Book of the World']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
Well pleased with coloured vellum, leaves of gold,
Fair dangling ribands, leaving what is best'
[William Drummond of Hawthornden, 'The Book of the World']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
December 12, 2024 at 3:47 PM
'But silly we, like foolish children, rest
Well pleased with coloured vellum, leaves of gold,
Fair dangling ribands, leaving what is best'
[William Drummond of Hawthornden, 'The Book of the World']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
Well pleased with coloured vellum, leaves of gold,
Fair dangling ribands, leaving what is best'
[William Drummond of Hawthornden, 'The Book of the World']
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
Argyll in winter: magical ❄️💙
December 11, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Argyll in winter: magical ❄️💙
'I ask no lovelier thing
Than this December silver'
Perfect lines for a trip to magical winter Argyll 💙
[Dorothy Margaret Paulin, December Day]
Than this December silver'
Perfect lines for a trip to magical winter Argyll 💙
[Dorothy Margaret Paulin, December Day]
December 11, 2024 at 6:16 PM
'I ask no lovelier thing
Than this December silver'
Perfect lines for a trip to magical winter Argyll 💙
[Dorothy Margaret Paulin, December Day]
Than this December silver'
Perfect lines for a trip to magical winter Argyll 💙
[Dorothy Margaret Paulin, December Day]
'dh’fheithinn-sa an siud gu sìorraidh
braon air bhraon an cuan a’ sìoladh / I would wait there forever
for the sea draining drop by drop' ❤️
[Somhairle MacGill-Eain/ Sorley MacLean, Tràighean/Shores]
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
braon air bhraon an cuan a’ sìoladh / I would wait there forever
for the sea draining drop by drop' ❤️
[Somhairle MacGill-Eain/ Sorley MacLean, Tràighean/Shores]
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
December 10, 2024 at 1:20 PM
'dh’fheithinn-sa an siud gu sìorraidh
braon air bhraon an cuan a’ sìoladh / I would wait there forever
for the sea draining drop by drop' ❤️
[Somhairle MacGill-Eain/ Sorley MacLean, Tràighean/Shores]
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
braon air bhraon an cuan a’ sìoladh / I would wait there forever
for the sea draining drop by drop' ❤️
[Somhairle MacGill-Eain/ Sorley MacLean, Tràighean/Shores]
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
'giving me gifts wrapped in the
ribbons of memory'
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Norman MacCaig, Assynt and Edinburgh]
ribbons of memory'
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Norman MacCaig, Assynt and Edinburgh]
December 9, 2024 at 3:58 PM
'giving me gifts wrapped in the
ribbons of memory'
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Norman MacCaig, Assynt and Edinburgh]
ribbons of memory'
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Norman MacCaig, Assynt and Edinburgh]
'Lo, by the hearth, the laughter of the logs -
More fair than roses, lo, the flowers of fire!'
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Robert Louis Stevenson, Winter]
More fair than roses, lo, the flowers of fire!'
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Robert Louis Stevenson, Winter]
December 8, 2024 at 8:19 PM
'Lo, by the hearth, the laughter of the logs -
More fair than roses, lo, the flowers of fire!'
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Robert Louis Stevenson, Winter]
More fair than roses, lo, the flowers of fire!'
#ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Robert Louis Stevenson, Winter]
December 7, 2024 at 1:33 PM
'to change
her homesickness
into green chutney'
One of my favourite contemporary poets for today's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Imtiaz Dharker, Crab Apples]
her homesickness
into green chutney'
One of my favourite contemporary poets for today's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Imtiaz Dharker, Crab Apples]
December 6, 2024 at 11:18 AM
'to change
her homesickness
into green chutney'
One of my favourite contemporary poets for today's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Imtiaz Dharker, Crab Apples]
her homesickness
into green chutney'
One of my favourite contemporary poets for today's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Imtiaz Dharker, Crab Apples]
'Nam cheann tha an tiona air meirgeadh / The tin in my head rusting'
Celebrating our new makar with today's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Pàdraig MacAoidh/ Peter Mackay, 'An tiona/The Tin]
Via @byleaveswelive.bsky.social
Celebrating our new makar with today's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Pàdraig MacAoidh/ Peter Mackay, 'An tiona/The Tin]
Via @byleaveswelive.bsky.social
December 5, 2024 at 10:14 AM
'Nam cheann tha an tiona air meirgeadh / The tin in my head rusting'
Celebrating our new makar with today's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Pàdraig MacAoidh/ Peter Mackay, 'An tiona/The Tin]
Via @byleaveswelive.bsky.social
Celebrating our new makar with today's #ScottishPoetryAdvent
[Pàdraig MacAoidh/ Peter Mackay, 'An tiona/The Tin]
Via @byleaveswelive.bsky.social